Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-09
HISTORY OF THE WEEK.

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Sunday last, and the clergyman, Rev. DR..
1AA q; preached upon the Power of Little
sInlngs Before the astonished congregation
or the jury could realize it, he was in the
midst OF an address upon the Importance Of
apparently trivial circumstances when
rightly viewed. AS the train robber convic-
tlon depends largely upon circumstantial
evidence the surprise was great, but DR..
Axten proceeded to tell how a celebrated
criminal had once been convicted after long
years by tell-tale scrap of paper. A torn
check figures largely in the Rock Island
case, and much feeling was expressed after
the services at the singular remarks of
the preacher. The attorneys for Swartz
and Watt will demand new trial for their
clients on the ground of undue influence
upon the jury If the prisoners are con-
victed
The Cincinnati Price Current has
published It's 38th annual statement of pork
packing in the West. The total winter
packing in aoo the West is 6,349,ooo hogs,
weight Of hogs PCS is Fl pounds lighter than
estimated at 81, 800 less than last year at
same average weight. The yield of lard is
l.69 pounds, per hog lighter. The production
OF mess pork shows reduction of 156, 939
barrels. The lard product equals l7,ss7
tierces less than last year. Stocks of meats
on hand March l, were 81, 127,OOO pounds
less than year ago, and a reduction of
l45,669 barrels of pork and 81 ,344 tierces of
lard In the comparison packing for the
summer season ending Nov. was 1914, 0O3
hogs or 619, 431 more than in 1885,
At the city election in Chicago on
the 5th, the Carter Harrison socialistic
combine was defeated by a union Of Re-
publicans and Democrats upon the ticket
nominated by the Republicans with John
a. Roche for Mayor. The total vote for
Mayor, was Roche, Rep, 51,OS9; Nelson,
socialist, ~2S47; Roche's majority 2S,241.
The labor party elected one alderman in
the 5th ward and the Democrats their can
didate for alderman in the second ward.
The Democratic candidate for assessor in
the North Town was elected, with these
exceptions the Republicans elected all their
tickets.
During the pitchy darkness of the
night of April End, fire broke out in the Ho-
tel Del Monte, at Monterey, California, and
in three hours the chimnies were all that
remained of the palace structure. The ho-
tel was supplied with ample fire apparatus
but 1t was found the water works had been
tempered with and the hose with which
each floor was supplied was useless. All
the guests were got out in safety but with
loss including the luggage of the guests ex-
ceeds million and half of dollars.
Tarleton Steele, a colored man, on
the last Sunday morning of March, near
Montgomery, Alabama, struck his wife on
the head with an ak handle, killing her al
most instantly. He then took the body and
carried 1t OFT to a lonely place in the woods,
mile from home, threw it in a gully, piled
straw on it, then poured kerosene oil on
the heap and set fire to it. Suspicion had
been aroused and neighbors searched the
woods and found the remaining portions
OF the body. The murderer was captured
aid made a full confession.
In the United States Circuit Court at
Chicago, on Monday, Judge Gresham ap-
pointed as the successor of Judge Cooley,
Gen. John McNulta, of Bloomington, Ill,
to be receiver of the Wabash railway lines
lying east of the Mississippi river. Gen. Nc
Nulta is a lawyer. He at one time had con-
st. Louis to Toledo, having been recon-
mended tor that trust by the late Judges
David Davis and Treat He is said to have
managed the affairs of that corporation
very successfully. %.
Capt. A. M. Smith, was blowing
upon his farm two miles from Franklin,
1eAaS, warren Oh, Wnen some one came
stealthily upon him and fired load of
buckshot into his back, killing him instantly
The assassin then emptied another load of
shot into the head of his victim, tearing
out his eyes and horribly mutilating his
face. j. F. Fulton, neighbor, against
whom Smith had obtained judgment for a
small amount, has been arrested for the
crime. His boots fitted the tracks about
the corpse. ..:.
At Frankfort, KY, the Court of
Appeals has overruled the petition for re-
hearing in the case of John j. Cornelson's
VS.. the commonwealth. This is Corne! sons
last resort to evade the punishment decreed
against him for assaulting with a cowhide
Judge Richard Reid, in Mount Sterling, in
May, 1854. Reid, it will be remembered,
afterward committed suicide. The verdict
of the lower court was a fine OF cent and
costs and confinement in the county jail for
three years. ..s .'
On Tuesday last, L. De Saulniers
organist of st. Peters Church, Lewiston
Me-, his wife, child of three, and babys
and Mr.. Morton were poisoned by whisky
containing wine of coichicum, sold De
Saulniers by mistake by Dr.. Lerfuge, who
was in charge of drug store in the absence
OF the proprietor. De Saulniers died Sunday
His wife's condition is critical. The other.
Will recover. rs
Official reports from Valparaiso state
there are only few isolated cases of
cholera at that port and but few at Santiago
de Chill. There has been no cholera on the
coast north of Valparaiso. A strict ouaran-
tine is enforced at all Pacific ports notwith-
standing that it is officially reported that
the cholera is confined and is diminishing in
Chilli
Ninety of the 800 contractors and
employing carpenters of Chicago agreed to
the terms demanded by the carpenters
union, 35 cents an hour and eight hours to
constitute day, but the men say they will
not return to work until at least majority
OF the employers agree to their terms.
The railroad coal operators of the
Pittsburgh district, who ship to Western
points, have formed an association for the
maintenance of a uniform selling price of
coal. Eighty per cent. of the firms shipping
west, and representing S12,OO0000 capital,
have Joined the pool.
A gang of burglars who realized
900 as the fruit of several robberies in
Hall and Worth counties, Ga, turn out to
be the men engaged in the Cleveland, Ohio,
fur store robbery, and who afterward MUIR
dered Detective Hulligan at Ravenna, in
rescuing one of their number.
For twelve hours on Monday, April
4, the heaviest snow storm of the season,
accompanied by fierce northwest wind,
prevailed all over the upper Michigan
peninsula. From Is to Is inches of snow
fell on the level and trains on all roads were
delayed.
The latest returns from Michigan
show the election of the Republican state
ticket, by about 10000 plurality The de-
feat of the nrohihitiOn constitutional